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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 14h

oretta, m.n: one who strives, a combatant, warrior, champion. (OR-et-ta / ˈɔ-rɛt-ta)
Image: Vincent of Beauvais’s Speculum historiale; France, c. 1294-1297; Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 130II, f. 319v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD

Medieval manuscript image of a rabbit walking on its hind legs, holding a circular shield in one forepaw and a giant sword in the other.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 2d

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Dr. Suzanne Scott @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social · 3d

Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: [email protected].

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 2d

if there’s a unit that is a main offender, they might get a personal talking to, which would probably get you some relief for (let’s be real) a few months

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 2d

time for a chat with your property manager?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 4d

you know what rules? film cameras

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 4d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 4d

evidence of data falsification

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 4d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 4d

"The chancellor approved it"

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · Jan 13

they NEED to teach CURSIVE in SCHOOLS so KIDS will KNOW how to WRITE ominous antiquated WILLS stipulating their SURVIVING RELATIVES must SPEND THE NIGHT in a HAUNTED HOUSE

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 8d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 5d

spidermanicule

Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 9d

#EarlyModern meme! #BookHistory

The bottom of a page of printed text, showing three hands (or printers' fists) pointing at each other.

The spiderman meme: three spidermen pointing at each other.

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 4d

my credit union, in their infinite wisdom, has seen fit to give me access to the Imaginary Money via plastic card, and somehow it feels like the opposite of a solution to any of my problems

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ceej @ceej.online · 6d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 6d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 6d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like this is fair because you earwormed me with Two fucking Princes immediately upon waking this morning goddamn it

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 7d

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 7d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 7d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 7d

my longest online friendships are coming up on 25 years. I have known these people for over half my lifetime. what the fuck

✨🥀Persephone Evil🥀✨ @bipolarpisces35.blacksky.app · 7d

God damn, some of yall been following each other online for a decade?!!

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 7d

(With alt text)

A retooling of a Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin’s dad is going to read him a bedtime story.

First panel:
Calvin’s dad, scanning a bookshelf: “What story would you like tonight? We can read anything except—“
Calvin, from bed, excited: “The Voynich Manuscript!”

Second panel:
Calvin’s dad, deeply exasperated: “NO! No Voynich Manuscript tonight! We’ve tried to decipher that book a million times!”
Calvin, yelling: “I want the Voynich Manuscript!”

Third panel:
Calvin’s dad, trying to reason with him: “Look, you *know* how the story goes! You’ve memorized the whole thing! It’s completely unreadable!”
Calvin: “I want mysterious glyphs and sigils!”

Fourth panel:
Calvin, in bed and staring wide-eyed into the dark: “Wow, the story was different *that* time!”
Hobbes, also in bed and staring: (a long string of incomprehensible characters).

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 7d

obviously it is @michaelstipe.bsky.social

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 10d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 7d

accidentally bought whole milk today and I am so scared for my inner workings for the next ten days or so

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 10d

how to deactivate torment nexus

torment nexus deactivation tutorial

torment nexus deactivation tutorial working 2025

deactivate torment nexus no survey

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sapient scarewood @izzybeth.bsky.social · 10d

baby’s first migraine aura! no headache, thank tawg. that was wild. I’m very glad it waited until I got home because I pretty much couldn’t see for half an hour (I’m fine now)

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